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HP Mini Note - Anybody have one?
Monolithic_Dome
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So the lady friend wants a new laptop. Being the lady friend's main source of advice on these sorts of things, I've been tasked with laptop procurement. Lady friend wants something small and easy to carry. Her main needs are note taking and web browsing, so my first thought was to go with the EEE. However, I think she'd be put off by the kid-sized keyboard and screen (especially the keyboard).
But it looks like this here HP Mini Note has potential.
a few questions:
1. Anybody have one of these? Like it? Not so much?
2. Anyone know what retail stores have these on display? Ideally I'd like to arrange for the lady friend to try clickity clacking herself and she if it suits her
3. Any other contenders in this new "super small notebooks that don't cost your first born" market that I should know about? OS is not an issue since I'll just end up installing XP anyway. Try as I might, lady friend just isn't gonna be Linux lady friend time soon.
But it looks like this here HP Mini Note has potential.
a few questions:
1. Anybody have one of these? Like it? Not so much?
2. Anyone know what retail stores have these on display? Ideally I'd like to arrange for the lady friend to try clickity clacking herself and she if it suits her
3. Any other contenders in this new "super small notebooks that don't cost your first born" market that I should know about? OS is not an issue since I'll just end up installing XP anyway. Try as I might, lady friend just isn't gonna be Linux lady friend time soon.
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I'd wait till they start coming out with atom cpus, the MSI Wind looks very promising, for example.
It's supposed to be released in the US June 3rd. Barring any horrible reviews between now and then, it's the ultra-portable I'm going to buy.
June 3rd the wind is shown at some show, doesn't mean it's immediately released.... does it? I hope so, that's what I'm planning to buy like the other guy said, unless somethinhg happens.
Funny, I give the exact opposite advice, especially with laptops. Me and my brother both own HP laptops, and they perform great, are rock solid, have taken a shit ton of abuse, etc etc. His had some problem that was occuring across all laptops of that same type, so they let him send it in and they fixed it, no charge. This was after warranty had ended, too.
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You sir, have had better experience than I, or anyone I personally know. Consider yourself lucky. Or me unlucky, your choice.
I've purchased no fewer than 25 HP laptops for my business of various models. While I can't vouch for HP's consumer lines of laptops, their business lines have been really solid in my experience. It is worth noting that if you're buying HP's "Smart Buy" laptops, you can expect a noticeably lower build quality than on ones not labelled "Smart Buy". That doesn't stop the Smart Buys from being great deals, but they definitely aren't built as well as their regular business laptops.
I was looking at the Mininote because of how happy I am with my 6910p. I'm still interested in them, but I want to see what they do over the summer (if they switch to Intel/Isaiah processors).
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Or the opposite of this, intelligent. You can find these at a bargain right now. For what you're most likely going to use these machines for, Atom really isn't that big of a deal.
Intel says significant, I'm treating it like every other new processor I've ever heard of: cautious optimism that typically errs on the side of lying rat bastard marketing materials.
As far as build quality, here's what I seem to notice about laptops. Everyone considers Lenovo and Apple to be the top of the list. Anyone else is a total crap shoot. For everyone who loves HP and has only gotten total shit from Toshiba, there's another guy who swears by Toshiba but don't ever buy from Dell.
Too confusing for me.
Oh man, just checked out the specs on that MSI wind. Kicks the innards out of the HP. Has MSI made a laptop before? I've used their components before, but not whole systems.